The FSA has banned an east London mortgage broker for knowingly submitting "false and misleading" income details in mortgage applications.
The regulator says Tomilola Omolola Ogunmoye also failed to cooperate with the FSA by refusing to provide a sample of mortgage client files or deal with the investigators. In one financial year, Ogunmoye declared different income figures to four lenders. Of the four, one was approved, two rejected and one declined after it was identified as suspicious. The sets of income figures she declared to lenders bore no relation to the income figures reported to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Margaret Cole, director of enforcement and financial crime at the FSA, says: "With help...
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